One of the things that chiefly impresses an American Christian who travels widely in heathen lands is that heathenism is far more than a superstition or a creed; it is an atmosphere and a type of character.
About
a month since, a gentleman called on us socially but almost immediately excusing himself for his abrupt departure, he said he felt one of his frequent attacks of head pain coming on, and that he must get home right away.
Through
the agency of a little child, in fact with a mere babe as teacher, I have been privileged to learn a helpful lesson showing the folly of a much used statement: "My progress in Christian Science has been very slow.
We
are permitted to use the following excerpts from two letters written by a gentleman living in a small town in England, who has had no opportunity to know anything of Christian Science save through the friend whose reply letter, in part, is also appended.
Some
seem to think that because Christian Science is based upon the propositions that all causation is mental, and that the divine Mind and its manifestation constitute all reality, the adherents of this faith utterly ignore the material universe and its conditions, and expect to depart from earth immediately, and take up their abode in the spiritual realm.
